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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the area in which Patty grew up?

2. Who is the "more obvious credit to her parents" in "Good Neighbors"?

3. What is the name of Carol Monaghan's boyfriend in "Good Neighbors"?

4. Patty and Walter marry how many weeks after Patty graduates from college?

5. Following this time at the lake in "Mistakes Were Made," Walter takes a job where?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after Patty leaves Eliza for the last time?

2. What is The Fiend of Athens, and how do Walter and Patty interpret it?

3. What happens while Patty and Richard are at the lake house?

4. Who is Richard? How does Patty meet him, and what does she think of him?

5. What are Walter's feelings regarding population growth?

6. How does Connie feel about Joey Berglund?

7. What is Nameless Lake, and how does it get its name?

8. How does Patty's friendship with Eliza end?

9. Why does Walter invite Richard to stay at his lake house?

10. Who is Carol Monaghan and what is her relationship to the Berglunds?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Connie and Jenna. How are their characters similar, and how are they different? How does each impact Joey?

Essay Topic 2

The characters are involved in many internal conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose three characters and explain how their internal conflict(s) impact both the plot and the characters themselves.

Essay Topic 3

Nature plays a big role in the novel. Discuss how the natural world impacts the characters and the story.

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